Peeking out of my shell and a question

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Hi. I'm new here My name is Maria.

I want to get into digiscrapping but I am not used to using elements- I used to use CS3 before. I have a couple things I can't figure out how to do and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. First, how do you install actions in Elements? I have looked on many different websites and they say to put the files in the special effects folder but I don't have one of those? Also, in CS3 there was something called "blending options" where you could do drop shadow, stroke, etc. Anyone know where that is in Elements?

Thanks for any help